The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols,… - Alfred Korzybski
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols,…
- Alfred Korzybski
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ou… - Alfred Korzybski
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ou…
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults. - Alfred Korzybski
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'. - Alfred Korzybski
Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
The map is not the territory. - Alfred Korzybski
The map is not the territory.
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in… - Alfred Korzybski
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in…
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. - Alfred Korzybski
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
I think therefore I seem to be. - Alfred Korzybski
I think therefore I seem to be.
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map. - Alfred Korzybski
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.
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